These pages should help you in the journey from the ECMWF pilot infrastructure in Reading to the new home of the European Weather Cloud at ECMWF in Bologna.
If you have any infrastructure or data in the pilot infrastructure in Reading, you should take the following steps as soon as you can:
- Perform some housekeeping on your tenant, deleting any infrastructure and data such as any Virtual Machine and S3 buckets that you don't require to keep.
- Assess what parts of your deployments can be easily recreated from scratch on the new cloud.
- Let us know if you have any virtual machines or infrastructure that would not be easily recreated so we can discuss the next steps with you. No virtual infrastructure, applications or data will be moved automatically.
Once you are ready you will need to:
- Redeploy those parts of your virtual infrastructure and applications that have not been moved. See Accessing the Computing and Storage Cloud resources in Bologna for more information
- Copy over any data present in S3 buckets or Virtual Machines that you wish to keep to their equivalent location in the new cloud. See Migration of data to ECMWF Operational infrastructure from Pilot for details on how to perform this operation efficiently.
Both new and old infrastructure will run in parallel for a while to help in this migration effort. There is no fixed date set for the retirement of the pilot infrastructure, but we aim to keep it at least until the end of September 2023.